Supply and Use Tables for Macedonia - UNECE

Supply and Use Tables for

Macedonia

Prepared by: Lidija Kralevska

Skopje, February 2016

Contents

Introduction

Data Sources

Compilation of the Supply and Use Tables

Supply and Use Tables as an integral part of the GDP balancing process

Transformation of the Supply and Use tables into Symmetric Input-Output Tables

Conclusions

Introduction 2004 - experimental compilation of the SUTs at current prices for the

year 2000

The first aim - to check availability and reliability of data and data sources needed for more detailed breakdown of GDP aggregates into primary and secondary activities and by products.

The main data sources – regular statistical surveys and other administrative data sources (no additional survey was conducted for the compilation of the SUTs).

Methodologies: “EUROSTAT Input-Output Manual”, “United Nations Handbook of Input-Output Tables Compilation and Analysis” and methodologies of other countries.

Introduction ESA95 concepts and definitions, the same general rules of treatment for

transactions as elsewhere in the System of National Accounts.

Important assistance:

2005 – expert mission from National Statistical Institute of Bulgaria,

2007 – training course for SUTs in Sarajevo within the 3CARDS Regional Programme on Statistics

2007-2013 - EU twining projects for support to the State Statistical Office - most important for the National Accounts – an expert assistance from the Czech Statistical Office.

2008 - started regular compilation of:

SUTs at current prices - annual compilation (three years after the reference year), (2005, 2006, …., 2012)

Symmetric input-output tables (SIOTs) - five-yearly (2005, 2010)

Introduction Transmission to EUROSTAT – according to EUROSTAT Transmission Program

and templates for SUTs and SIOTs (tables 15 and 16 at current prices and tables 17, 18 and 19)

Already calculated and published values of GDP aggregates on the level of NACE divisions and totals were used as a frame for the compilation of SUTs.

2013 - SUTs were used for the first time as a tool for balancing GDP data calculated by production and expenditure approach. GDP preliminary data for 2012 were balanced by SUTs.

2014 – SUTs at current and previous year prices were used as a balancing tool within the National Accounts revision for the period 2005-2012.

2014 - SUTs for 2012 were compiled according to ESA2010.

Supply at basic prices

Gross value of output at basic prices

Imports (c.i.f.)

Annual financial statement reports-accounts (Central Register Agency and other

administrative sources)

Annual statistical report for the calculation of the value

added for non-financial enterprises

Annual statistical survey for mining, quarrying and

manufacturing

Economic accounts for agriculture

Surveys for the distributive trade, catering trade, surveys for transport

and survey for research and development

External trade statistics; Balance of payments of

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Supply at purchaser prices

Trade margins

Transport margins

Taxes less subsidies on

products

Statistical surveys for transport

Biennial surveys for the wholesale and retail distributive trade;

Household budget survey


Data Sources - supply

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Data Sources - supply The value data classified by products - the most important data for the

SUTs compilation

Data sources for the output:

The full set of the Annual Financial Reports-Accounts: balance sheet, profit and loss report, receipts and expenditures report, cash flows report and structure of the capital report.

All enterprises are obliged by law to submit the full set to the Central

Register, which in turn submits the set to the State Statistical Office in electronic format. All data from those reports are stored in the Data Warehouse and processed in SAS software.

Annual statistical survey for calculation of value added for non-financial enterprises - used to observe the secondary activities within the organisation structure of enterprises.

Data Sources - supply

Economic Accounts for Agriculture - compiled annually since 1998 and cover all production activities and production units (including Households small farms). Near to 46 agricultural goods and services are presented in EAA.

Annual statistical survey on mining, quarrying and manufacturing - used to distinguish the commodity structure of output of NACE activities 05-35. It is based on the PRODCOM list and provides detailed information about the commodity structure of production by activities.

Annual statistical survey on construction, quarterly statistical survey on distributive trade, quarterly statistical survey on catering trade and annual statistical surveys on transport - used to distinguish the commodity structure of output of NACE activities 41-56.

Data Sources - supply Data sources for imports of goods and services: Foreign trade

statistics and the Balance of payments of the National Bank.

Calculation of the wholesale trade margins by CPA commodity groups - the gross values of output and imports are multiplied by the wholesale margin rates.

Calculation of the retail trade margins by CPA commodity groups - the values of final consumption of households and purchases on the domestic territory by non-residents are multiplied by the retail margin rates.

The wholesale and retail trade margin rates are calculated on the basis of data from trade and price statistics.

Data Sources - supply The transport margins by CPA commodity groups are calculated on

the basis of data from the annual statistical surveys on transport, annual financial statement reports-accounts of enterprises and other organisations and the data from the “Special form for the needs of Government”.

Taxes on products: value added tax (VAT), excise duties and import duties. Theoretical distribution of VAT by CPA commodity groups - taxable purchases (final

consumption of households, purchases on the domestic territory by non-residents, intermediate consumption and gross fixed capital formation for VAT non-payers) are multiplied by the prescribed tax rates (5% and 18%).

Theoretical distribution of import duties by CPA commodity groups - the value of imports are multiplied by the prescribed customs rates on products.

Calculated (theoretical) taxes are afterwards adjusted to the data from tax records.

Intermediate consumption

Final consumption expenditures

Annual financial statement reports-accounts (Central Register Agency and other

administrative sources)

Statistical surveys for construction, catering

trade and transport

Annual statistical survey for mining, quarrying and

manufacturing

Economic accounts for agriculture

External trade statistics; Balance of payments of

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Gross fixed capital

formation

Gross capital formation

Changes in inventories

Exports (fob)

Biennial statistical surveys for the wholesale and retail

distributive trade


Expenditures for final consumption of

government

Expenditures for final consumption of

households

Expenditures for final consumption of NPISH

Annual statistical survey on GFCF

Data Sources - use

Data Sources - use Data sources for the intermediate consumption:

Annual Financial Reports - Accounts (supplemented with the “Special form for the needs of Government”).

Economic Accounts for Agriculture - the intermediate inputs of agricultural activity (seeds and planting stock, energy, lubricants, fertilisers and soil improvers, plant protection products and pesticides, veterinary expenses, feeding stuffs, etc.).

Annual statistical survey on mining, quarrying and manufacturing - expenditures of raw materials, energy and fuels by NACE activities 05-35 and by domestic production and imports.

Annual statistical survey on construction – expenditures of building materials and energy by NACE activities 41-43.

Data Sources - use Annual statistical survey on expenditures of raw materials for food

preparation in catering trade (NACE activities 55-56).

Final consumption expenditures of households: main data source is Household Budget Survey;

data from the Public Revenue Office concerning VAT statistics, data from the Insurance Supervision Agency, data from the National Bank regarding other financial services and

data directly taken from the bookkeeping documentation of companies that provide certain services to households (electricity, heating, telephone and post services, insurance and financial services, games of chance)

Final Consumption expenditures of Government and NPISH - annual financial statement reports of the budget users and of the budget itself as well as data from Ministry of Finance.

Data Sources - use

GFCF – data from the annual statistical survey on investments, data from construction statistics, commodity flow method for calculation of GFCF in the part of machinery and equipment, data from Annual Financial Reports - Accounts .

Changes in inventories – distribution by products is based on data from the annual statistical survey on mining, quarrying and manufacturing and biennial statistical surveys on internal distributive trade.

Exports of goods and services - Foreign trade statistics and the Balance of payments of the National Bank.

Compilation of the Supply and Use Tables – at current prices

The SUTs are compiled at the 2-digit level of activities (within the columns) according to the National Classification of Activities – NKD (compatible with NACE REV.2) and at the 2-digit level of products (within the rows) according to the CPA 2008.

The SUTs data at current prices on output, intermediate consumption and gross value added components by activities are adjusted to the Sector Accounts data by the same group of activities. (The Sector Accounts data are already adjusted with methodological and exhaustiveness adjustments and balanced by activities.)

As the Sector Accounts data are balanced by activities, column totals of the domestic Supply Table at basic prices (outputs by activity) are equal to the left hand side of the Use Table (inputs by activity). The activity (column) balance condition is fulfilled but is not fixed.


The Czech Statistical Office provided the National Account Sector with the MS Excel software for the compilation of the System of Tables (Sector Accounts and Supply and Use Tables).

The System of tables is established on one PC in the State Statistical Office. National Accounts staff have special permissions (“full control” or “read only”) for online work on the tables.

The System provide full cooperation between National Accounts staff who work on the compilation of: Sector Accounts, Supply and Use Tables and GDP estimations at current and previous year prices.

The whole System is fully standardised, which enabled comparability of data in the time series. Adding, deleted and merging of cells, columns and rows will cause breakdown of the system.


There are several Excel files (SUP, USE, SEK, SO etc.) interconnected by functional relations (links), comprising the whole System of Tables.

SUP and USE files are designed for the compilation of the Supply and Use Tables, deflation and balancing commodity flows at current and previous years’ prices.

Both files are mutually linked and include many sheets.

Most sheets contain three types of tables: input data is in the last table (on the bottom),

tables with different adjustments are located in the middle and

the first table on a sheet (on the top) contains resulting (final) data (computed data + adjustments).

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SUPPLY USE(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

A Products of agriculture, forestry and fishing 70 934 8 548 79 482 13 007 126 2 331 94 946 44 510 33 807 32 33 839 650 4 082 11 865 50 436 94 946B Mining and quarrying 12 501 17 369 29 870 1 130 614 50 31 664 23 535 629 629 4 281 3 219 8 129 31 66410; 11; 12 Food products, beverages and tobacco

products 64 323 33 030 97 353 31 825 80 17 661 146 919 20 433 98 933 166 99 099 7 459 19 928 126 486 146 919

13; 14; 15 Textiles, wearing apparel and leather

products 21 224 6 345 27 569 6 748 3 732 38 049 12 548 16 168 16 168 - 5 101 14 434 25 501 38 049

16 Wood and of products of wood and cork,

except furniture; articles of straw and

plaiting materials

1 764 3 106 4 870 185 124 5 179 2 768 493 493 1 637 281 2 411 5 179

17 Paper and paper products 2 441 5 745 8 186 1 691 9 345 10 231 7 736 1 186 1 186 1 115 194 2 495 10 23118 Printing and recording services 4 449 31 4 480 7 4 487 5 067 75 75 - 656 1 - 580 4 48719 Coke and refined petroleum products 11 485 38 048 49 533 4 749 426 14 847 69 555 39 634 11 625 11 625 8 232 10 064 29 921 69 55520; 21 Chemicals, chemical products, basic

pharmaceutical products and

pharmaceutical preparations

18 437 31 380 49 817 7 631 16 2 208 59 672 21 100 9 245 2 100 11 345 - 2 925 30 152 38 572 59 672

22 Rubber and plastic products 7 036 8 908 15 944 1 626 334 17 904 13 932 750 750 853 2 369 3 972 17 90423 Other non-metallic mineral products 11 351 8 298 19 649 2 609 375 574 23 207 20 002 699 699 - 382 2 888 3 205 23 20724 Basic metals 34 562 38 725 73 287 3 181 38 149 76 655 29 654 70 70 10 602 36 329 47 001 76 65525 Fabricated metal products, except machinery

and equipment 7 966 5 841 13 807 1 090 85 456 15 438 14 057 690 690 388 - 1 560 1 863 1 381 15 438

26; 27; 28 Computer, electronic and optical products,

electrical equipment, machinery and

equipment n.e.c.

29 825 38 354 68 179 7 111 65 3 037 78 392 29 342 9 257 40 9 297 23 651 - 1 522 17 624 49 050 78 392

29; 30 Motor vehicles, trailers, semi-trailers and

other transport equipment 1 599 13 641 15 240 2 521 1 2 210 19 972 2 944 8 329 8 329 7 303 - 831 2 227 17 028 19 972

31; 32 Furniture; other manufactured goods 3 790 4 916 8 706 1 727 976 11 409 4 389 3 349 180 3 529 1 506 79 1 906 7 020 11 40933 Repair and installation services of machinery

and equipment 1 221 1 221 28 1 249 1 236 13 13 13 1 249

D Electricity, gas, steam and air-conditioning 33 854 12 124 45 978 2 910 48 888 32 398 14 340 14 340 2 150 16 490 48 888E Water supply, sewerage; waste management

and remediation activities 7 751 1 073 8 824 52 189 9 065 4 395 2 881 441 3 322 220 1 128 4 670 9 065

F Construction works 84 308 2 011 86 319 1 584 87 903 13 959 547 1 548 70 618 2 778 73 944 87 903G Wholesale and retail trade services; repair

services of motor vehicles and motorcycles 91 442 91 442 - 87 085 212 4 569 3 269 1 300 1 300 1 300 4 569

H Transport and storage services 55 674 17 249 72 923 - 1 887 1 321 72 357 31 346 10 740 824 11 564 29 447 41 011 72 357I Accommodation and food services 21 287 21 287 2 972 24 259 6 739 16 680 - 49 16 631 889 17 520 24 259J Information and communication services 31 413 5 080 36 493 254 2 657 39 404 15 610 14 132 9 421 14 562 2 047 7 185 23 794 39 404K Financial and insurance services 23 859 2 542 26 401 26 401 14 155 10 620 10 620 1 626 12 246 26 401L Real estate services 67 625 67 625 67 625 5 390 62 234 1 62 235 62 235 67 625M Professional, scientific and technical

services 22 982 13 804 36 786 1 048 37 834 25 212 259 8 685 952 3 228 8 442 12 622 37 834

N Administrative and support services 8 708 964 9 672 123 9 795 5 702 1 169 3 159 1 331 2 762 4 093 9 795O Public administration and defence services;

compulsory social security services 51 178 1 673 52 851 52 851 8 286 53 44 246 44 299 266 44 565 52 851

P Education services 22 006 22 006 245 22 251 693 5 248 49 16 261 21 558 21 558 22 251Q Human health and social work services 24 311 24 311 24 311 486 3 572 189 20 064 23 825 23 825 24 311R Arts, entertainment and recreation services 8 788 845 9 633 6 9 639 2 309 3 074 874 1 654 5 602 30 1 698 7 330 9 639S Other services 7 299 7 299 683 7 982 1 086 4 246 2 647 3 6 896 6 896 7 982T Services of households as employers;

undifferentiated goods and services

produced by households for own use

213 213 213 0 213 213 213 213

Total 867 606 319 650 1 187 256 0 0 63 019 1 250 275 463 922 346 626 3 977 87 031 437 634 109 421 25 583 213 715 786 353 1 250 275

CPA2008

Supply and use table for Macedonia, general overview, current prices, in million denars, 2012

The State Statistical Office uses the previous year as the base year for national accounts deflation method.

The SUTs provide a good and consistent framework for the calculation and balancing of national accounts aggregates at previous year’s prices.

Flows of goods and services (output, imports, intermediate consumption, final consumption expenditure of households, of NPISH and of government, GFCF, inventories and exports) are deflated at basic prices to which price indices refer.

At the level of individual CPA divisions of goods and services the same price indices at basic prices are used for all flows, which enables consistency of used indices at the supply and use side.

Margins and taxes are deflated separately on the use side and then transferred also to the supply side.

Compilation of the Supply and Use Tables – at prices of the previous year

The whole process consists of the decomposition of the SUTs to individual value components and compilation of many sub-tables.

The supply table at basic prices is split into: imports and domestic output. The domestic output is split into: market output, non-market output and

specific output (trade and transport margins, imputed rents and FISIM).

The domestic output is also split into: output for domestic use and output for export (total export reduced by non-resident purchases from imports and margins).

The use table is calculated at basic prices (use at purchasers’ prices less margins, taxes) because the use side has to be equal in all value components to the supply side. All components of the use table at basic prices (intermediate consumption, final consumption) are split into: use of imports and use of domestic output.


The respective price indices are applied to individual sub-tables of the supply and use side.

Market output for domestic use - is valued at basic prices and deflated by

PPIs.

The components of non-market output are deflated separately: intermediate consumption - deflated by implicit deflator from the use side by

products,

compensation of employees - deflated by change in average wage and

consumption of fixed capital - deflated by general PPI.

Import of goods and other services - deflated by unit value indices of imports.

Export of goods and services - deflated by unit value indices of exports.


FHCE expenditure is calculated at basic prices and split into use of domestic output (deflated by PPIs) and use of imports (deflated by ImUVI).

VAT, trade and transport margins, subsidies on products, and taxes on products without VAT – are deflated separately. The rates of the previous year are applied on the uses of goods and services valued at previous year’s prices (at basic values). Deflation is done in use table data and then transferred also to the supply side.

The individual components at prices of the previous year are then aggregated back and the SUTs at previous year's prices are thus acquired.

From these tables, the volume and implicit deflators of output, intermediate consumption, value added, final demand components, at any level of aggregation, are derived in separate tables.


Supply and Use Tables as an integral part of GDP balancing process

The annual estimates of GDP are produced independently with the production, expenditure and income approach.

Calculations of GDP with the production and expenditure approaches are carried out using separate data sources.

Calculation of GDP with the income approach is also carried out, but uses the same data sources as the production approach.

The SUTs framework provides a statistical framework to include the components of three approaches to measuring GDP, enabling a balanced estimate of GDP at current and previous year’s prices to be achieved.

The process of SUTs balancing is the final stage of the whole process of GDP estimation.


First stage of balancing SUTs: The SUTs are:

compiled and adjusted to the Sector Accounts data;

the activity (column) balance condition is fulfilled but is not fixed.

during the process of SUTs balancing by products, the data by activities can be adjusted too. (The matrix nature of the SUTs means that adjustments to one cell to bring a row into balance can introduce imbalances into other rows and columns.)

The time series of individual aggregates are prepared in the necessary format and classifications and updated: output,

imports,

net taxes on products (taxes minus subsidies),

trade margins, transport margins,

intermediate consumption,

household consumption expenditure,

government and non-profit institutions consumption expenditure,

GFCF, acquisitions less disposals of valuables, changes in inventories

and exports


Time series for the period 2005-2012 at current and previous year prices are prepared in several files with many sheets:

Output, intermediate consumption, ratio intermediate consumption/output

by 88 NACE activity groups

Output for each of the 88 NACE activity groups by CPA commodity groups (commodity structure of output)

Intermediate consumption for each of the 88 NACE activity groups by CPA commodity groups (commodity structure of intermediate consumption)

Commodity structure of all individual aggregates (output, imports, net taxes on products, trade margins, transport margins, intermediate consumption, household consumption expenditure, government and non-profit institutions consumption expenditure, gross fixed capital formation and acquisitions less disposals of valuables, changes in inventories and exports) at 88 CPA commodity groups.


Second stage of balancing SUTs:

The product balance condition should be achieved:

horizontal balancing of supply and use data within the commodity group: total supply of each commodity group has to be equal to the total use of the same group (”commodity flows” method).

There are no strict rules how to make balancing adjustment in order to balance commodity flows. The most important is the history and expert knowledge.

Analysing the time series of individual aggregates by activities and products and comparing data with other available statistics (quarterly estimates of GDP, industrial output index, index of construction work, sales indices in the individual industries).


Major deviations from the average values in time series of respective aggregates or ratio indicators are subjected to thorough analysis in order to reveal possible errors in the source data.

If there are no source data errors detected and there is no explanation for the deviation, the figures are adjusted by balancing corrections.

Usually the figures are manually adjusted to follow the trend of a related indicator.

The difference between supply and use within one commodity group is allocated to one or more aggregates (intermediate consumption, FHCE, GFCF or changes in inventories).

After the deflation procedure is finished, the time series of aggregates in industry and commodity breakdown is checked again and significant inconsistencies are adjusted.


Third stage of balancing SUTs:

When manual adjustments have brought the tables into an “almost

balanced” state, minor discrepancies by commodity groups are eliminated using the RAS excel application.

RAS procedure enables to change the intermediate consumption matrix and distribute the small differences in the intermediate consumption.

Required data for RAS: an initial structure of the intermediate consumption matrix and new frame (row sums and column sums).

The pre-balancing and the post-balancing data are compared systematically and any balancing adjustments are documented for all compiled SUTs.


Balancing adjustments made in the Supply and Use Tables are provided to Sector Accounts to be incorporated in the goods and services account, sector and sub-sector figures.

Full consistency between Supply and Use Tables and Sector Accounts is obtained.

GDP estimates with the production and expenditure approaches are balanced through SUTs.

Goods and services account

Transformation of Supply and Use tables into Symmetric Input-Output Tables

Base for transformation – supply and use tables valued at basic prices.

“Product technology” assumption is applied. This method assumes: Transfer of secondary products from the industry where they were

produced to the industry in which they represent the primary products.

The input structure of the primary producer serves as basis for derivation of input structure of the product.

The transformation of SUTs only rearranges, on the basis of the output table and the assumption applied, the columns of the intermediate consumption from the use table at basic prices.

The final use data are left unchanged as in the use table at basic prices.

Transformation of Supply and Use tables to Symmetric Input-Output Tables

The special MS excel application for symmetric I/O table conversion provided by the Czech Statistical Office is used.

Symmetric “product-by-product” I/O tables are compiled for total, domestic production and imports.

Conclusions

The Supply and Use Tables are fully integrated into the National Accounts compilation process and provide an adequate accounting framework for compiling consistent and reliable national accounts data.

The Supply and Use Tables became an important tool for reconciliation of GDP data in an integrated approach.

As a result of everything mentioned above, the Supply and Use Tables will continuously develop and improve.

Thank you for your attention!

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